July 28, 2005

Benefits of Echinacea Disputed

The National Institutes of Health has bad news for the millions of Americans who spend $155 million a year on the popular herbal remedy echinacea to treat the cough, runny nose and malaise that is the common cold: It doesn't work. (USA Today)

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